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If a trope with this tag doesn't make much sense to you, relax. It's just an early draft, and is intended to be calibrated further.

The trope description itself [[Needs a Better Description|may]] or may not need some work, but what's definitely needed is suggestions for already existing tropes that might be related to the new one. This includes an element of "[[Do We Have This One?]]", but primarily focused on what ''other'' tropes to define the trope against.

As for examples, it's a bit early for that. The YKTTW will get the "[[Needs More Examples]]" tag later, when it is ready for it. In the meantime, examples are of course still welcome - especially if they [[Does This Count|come in the form of a question]].

However, [[Early Development Phase]] and [[Needs More Examples]] are ''not'' mutually exclusive: If both are there, it means "We need more examples to work with, in order to calibrate the trope definition".

There are three basic ways in which a trope can get started:
# The troper has found two or more different media examples of the same thing, and is now looking for more examples of the same thing. 
** For example, the trope [[Undefeatable Little Village]] started with a troper reading the [[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]] album "The Good Prince" and thinking "hey, this plotline is the same as the premise of Asterix, although in a quite different mood and with quite different consequences.
** This kind of YKTTW entry rarely need an Early Development Phase tag, instead starting out with [[Needs More Examples]] from day one.
# The troper has found one media example, and thinks "Hey, cool! I bet others have done the same thing."
** For example, the trope [[Life Will Kill You]] started with a troper listening to [[Clawfinger|the song]] with [[Trope Namer|the same name]].
** This kind of YKTTW entry is more likely to need an Early Development Phase tag, since it can sometimes be tricky to translate a media example into a trope.
# The trope starts with an abstract concept. Maybe someone found the concept interesting on a general level, or maybe a discussion about another trope reached the conclusion that "well, this concept is ''not'' this trope, so lets give it a trope of it's own.
** For example, [[Child Marriage Veto]] and [[Old Man Marrying a Child]] both started as spin-offs to [[Marital Rape License]], as people pointed out both that a girl might say no to an [[Arranged Marriage]] and that there's quite a bit of difference in dynamic depending on the age of the persons involved.
** This kind of YKTTW entry is the most likely to need an Early Development Phase tag, since the trope is defined by an abstract concept that might need quite a bit of calibration to translate into a trope and might originally even be defined by what it is not rather then by what it is.

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